The symposium will open with foundation talks
providing an overview ofopen-source software and Linux as an open-source web
application platform. Aseries of application-tier talks will provide insight
from the point of viewof widely used web application development languages:
Perl, PHP, Python, andJava. The final session will be an experience panel,
which will provide anopportunity for experience reports from actual
development projects toillustrate real-life problems and opportunities of
OSS.

Target Audience---------------The target audience for
the symposium is professional software engineers andtechnical management.
The audience is expected to have a diverse backgroundinvolving many
operating systems and languages, with experience in softwaresystem
development for a variety of industrial, military and commercialpurposes.
Attendees will include experienced professionals who have hadlittle or no
exposure with open-source software and are looking for a
goodintroduction.

Symposium Goals---------------The goal
of the symposium is to provide participants with a high-level,technically
sophisticated overview of major open source software (OSS)technologies
forweb application development. The symposium will provide information
abouttechnology, resources, and supporting tools and processes of the
OSScommunity. The attendee will take away from the symposium a
basicunderstanding of the available technologies, information about how
toacquire and learn more about the various packages, and insight that
willenable them to make informed decisions about using and deploying
specificOSS technology in web applications.

The technical
sessions will address:

* overview - what is it, what does it do, what
problems does it solve* key features - description of key features with
short examples* application examples - a few simple examples of doing
something useful orwhere/how to apply the technology* applicability -
when should you use it? [or when not!]* resources - where to get it, who
maintains it, where to find help, documentation, assistance, mailing
lists

Sessions--------9:00 Symposium Welcome

9:10
Introduction to open-source softwareWalt ScacchiSr Research Scientist.
UCI Institute of Software Research

If you are one of the first 75 paid registrants,
you will get a chance towin one of two Oreilly's "Linux Server CD Bookshelf"
(retail value:$119.95), or one of many other LAMP related Oreilly reference
books.

COSST Volunteers will get in free. There may also be T-Shirts. To
volunteer,contact Sebastian: seguti@ics.uci.edu or call
1-949-509-9628